Sentence examples for words for being from inspiring English sources
In other words, for being insufficiently socialist.
He paid the price, in other words, for being Bogart; his movies tell us it was worth it, but his suffering suggests otherwise, and that is what our culture wants to hear.
It's hard not to love Franklin, who was an abolitionist before it was cool, ran the Onion paper in the 18th century, was central to setting up a new form of government, played the wine glasses, proved that lightning was electricity, published a list of 220 words for being drunk, and essentially invented the modern American library, hospital, postal service, public college and reformatory prison.
Why are there so many different words for being beaten, asks slang lexicographer Jonathon Green.
"Steamin'" is one of many Scottish words for being drunk.
Those are two magic words for being polite.
Like ending a sentence with a preposition, or whatever kind of word "for" is.
Or you go to a movie and things you didn't have words for are there.
What, for example, might be the word for being "all Muslimmed out"?
Curation is just another word for being curious and critical, and then sharing that with someone.
It's another word for being lazy.
